Life Outside Poker: Farah Galfond on Days of Our Lives, Balancing Poker & Family

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Guests:

Farah Galfond

Life Outside Poker w/ Connor Richards is a new podcast for PokerNews that focuses on poker players with successful careers and lives outside of poker.

For the first episode, Connor Richards spoke with soap opera actress and high-stakes poker player Farah Fath Galfond, who talked about her acting career spanning more than a decade, first discovering poker in Atlantic City and balancing poker with raising a family.

You can also watch the hourlong interview with Farah Galfond by heading to the PokerNews YouTube channel.

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Time Stamps

  TIME TOPIC
  0:00 Intro
  1:00 Growing up in Kentucky and early acting career
  4:35 Days of Our Lives audition
  6:10 Mimi Lockhart storylines
  7:48 Losing yourself in character
  10:30 Deciding to leave Days of Our Lives
  13:15 Moving to New York
  14:45 First getting into poker
  15:43 Playing poker in Atlantic City
  17:50 One Life canceled and moving back to LA
  18:48 Seeing Phil on High Stakes Poker
  19:20 Connecting with Phil on Twitter
  21:20 Acting as a craft
  27:25 Learning from Phil
  30:24 What kind of father is Phil?
  32:50 High stakes tenure, moving up to $2k/$4k
  34:25 Balancing poker with being a mother
  36:10 Transitioning to tournaments
  39:34 Being numb to losing money
  40:25 Making comeback in Galfond Challenge
  43:02 Differences between Vegas, LA & Atlantic City poker scenes
  46:25 Raising the next generation of poker players
  49:00 Living in Vegas
  53:35 Period of your life you get nostalgic for
  56:00 Advice for your younger self
  57:24 Something that makes you hopeful
  58:24 Favorite life lesson from poker

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